If all you are doing with your cloud provider are a bunch of VMs, you’re wasting money. There are much cheaper and simpler ways just to host a bunch of VMs than to use one of the major cloud providers.
Are you not using any of thier managed services and are you maintaining your own on VMs? If so, you have the worse of both worlds. You’re spending more on hosting and you’re not saving money on letting someone else do the “undifferentiated heavy lifting”.
